"launched an ambitious new project, a transnational newspaper called ""The European"". In 1991, he was forced to sell Pergamon Press and Maxwell Directories to Elsevier for £440 million to cover his debts; he used some of this money to buy an ailing tabloid, the New York ""Daily News"". Also in 1991, Maxwell sold 49 percent of the stock of Mirror Group Newspapers to the public. Maxwell's links with Eastern European totalitarian regimes resulted in several biographies (generally considered to be hagiographies) of those countries' leaders, with interviews conducted by Maxwell, for which he received much derision. At the beginning of"
"it into its sister publication and former rival. The ""London Daily News"" was the first home of the ""Alex"" cartoon, later published by ""The Independent"" and the ""Daily Telegraph"". Maxwell admitted defeat on 25 July 1987 an hour after paying undisclosed damages to Associated Newspapers for accusing it of lying about the ""Evening Standard""s circulation figures. Starting the ""London Daily News"", which published four editions a day, had cost him $40 million (then about £24.96 million), Reuters estimated. His paper was “selling less than 100,000 copies, when minimum sales targets were 200,000 by this time"", Reuters reported Maxwell as commenting."
"to British businessman Robert Maxwell in 1991. In June 2000, Tribune acquired the Los Angeles-based Times Mirror Company in a merger deal worth $8.3 billion, which was the largest acquisition in the history of the newspaper industry. The merger added seven daily newspapers to Tribune's portfolio, including the ""Los Angeles Times"", the Long Island-based ""Newsday"", ""The Baltimore Sun"" and the ""Hartford Courant"". Tribune Media Net, the national advertising sales organization of Tribune Publishing, was established in 2000 to take advantage of the company's expanded scale and scope. Later in the decade, Tribune launched daily newspapers targeting urban commuters, including the"
"it or any other daily (non-Sunday) British newspaper since. The ""Mirror"" was owned by Robert Maxwell between 1984 and 1991. The paper went through a protracted period of crisis after his death before merging with the regional newspaper group Trinity in 1999 to form Trinity Mirror. During the 1930s the paper was editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. The paper has consistently supported the Labour Party since the 1945 general election. ""The Daily Mirror"" was launched on 2 November 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) as a newspaper for women, run by women. Hence"
"William Maxwell (engraver) William Maxwell (c. 1766 – September 10, 1809) was the first engraver to publish a newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio. The paper was called the ""Centinel of the Northwest Territory"", and the first issue was published on Saturday, November 9, 1793. The motto of the paper was ""Open to all parties–but influenced by none"". He used a portable wood printing press, which he took with him to Lexington, Kentucky and set up a business. In 1793 he left for Cincinnati and began his weekly newspaper, which consisted of four pages and had a limited circulation. The printing press"
"Human Rights Commission. London Daily News The London Daily News was a short-lived London newspaper owned by Robert Maxwell. It was published from 24 February to 23 July 1987. The London Daily News was intended to be a ""24-hour"" paper challenging the local dominance of the ""Evening Standard"". ""For the city that never sleeps, the paper that never stops"", ran the promotional slogan. The ""Standard""’s owners, Associated Newspapers, responded by reviving the ""Evening News"" at a lower price to squeeze the ""London Daily News"" out of the market. A price war ensued finishing with the ""London Daily News"" selling at"
"business. In the 1982 instance, the parent Tribune Company offered the tabloid up for sale. In 1991, millionaire Robert Maxwell offered financial assistance to the ""News"" to help it stay in business. When Maxwell died shortly thereafter, the ""News"" seceded from his publishing empire, which eventually splintered under questions about whether Maxwell had the financial backing to sustain it. After Maxwell's death in 1991, the paper was held together in bankruptcy by existing management, led by editor James Willse, who became interim publisher after buying the paper from Tribune. Mort Zuckerman bought the paper in 1993. From its founding until"
"the repetition of such old defamatory claims."" Ghislaine Maxwell Ghislaine Maxwell (born 25 December 1961) is a British socialite and the youngest child of publisher Robert Maxwell. Maxwell moved to the United States after her father's death and has become an advocate for the ocean as the founder of The TerraMar Project. Maxwell was born in 1961, the ninth and youngest child of Elisabeth (""née"" Meynard), a French Protestant and Robert Maxwell, a Jewish Czech-born British media proprietor. Maxwell attended Headington School, Marlborough College, and Oxford University's Balliol College. She founded a successful women's club named after the original Kit-Cat"
"and Robert Maxwell of Pergamon Press. In 1971 he joined Granada Television's ""World in Action"" as reporter on ""The Man Who Stole Uganda"" (on Idi Amin's Kampala coup) and ""The Rise and Fall of Jerome D Hoffman"". He became editor of the Trotskyist daily newspaper, ""Workers Press"", later renamed ""The News Line"", before returning to Sydney in 1986 to join the John Fairfax-owned ""The Sun-Herald"". Between 1992 and 1994 he was ""Sun-Herald"" European correspondent based in London and later became State Political Editor and president of the NSW Parliamentary Press Gallery (2001–07). Mitchell is married to Judith White, executive director"
"John Maxwell (1824–1895) John Maxwell (1824–1895) was an Irish businessman and publisher in London. He is known for his weekly publications containing fiction and gossip aimed at a working-class audience, which he ran while also cultivating upmarket readers with monthlies. Maxwell was from Ulster, an orphan from a Limerick family, and came to London around 1842, attempting to have Gerald Griffin's poetry published. In the 1850s he was in business in London, selling newspapers and advertising space in them. From 1858 Maxwell founded a series of newspapers, beginning that year with ""Town Talk"" which lasted for 18 months, followed by"
"United States. In his biography of Robert Maxwell, Tom Bower says that Maxwell sold Pergamon Press to academic publishing giant Elsevier in March 1991 for £440 million to keep his other companies afloat. This is contrary to what is reported here, i.e. that following Maxwell's death (which was in November 1991), Elsevier bought most of the company for $US770 million after a failed bid by Simon & Schuster. The imprint ""Pergamon Press"" continues to be used to identify journals now published by Elsevier. Pergamon Press Pergamon Press was an Oxford-based publishing house, founded by Paul Rosbaud and Robert Maxwell, which"
"Ghislaine Maxwell Ghislaine Maxwell (born 25 December 1961) is a British socialite and the youngest child of publisher Robert Maxwell. Maxwell moved to the United States after her father's death and has become an advocate for the ocean as the founder of The TerraMar Project. Maxwell was born in 1961, the ninth and youngest child of Elisabeth (""née"" Meynard), a French Protestant and Robert Maxwell, a Jewish Czech-born British media proprietor. Maxwell attended Headington School, Marlborough College, and Oxford University's Balliol College. She founded a successful women's club named after the original Kit-Cat Club Maxwell was also a director of"
"company owned by Robert Maxwell, acquired the ""Daily Mirror"" from Reed International. The company was relisted as ""Mirror Group"" in 1991. The company went on to buy Scottish & Universal Newspapers in 1992, and in 1997 it acquired the Birmingham Post and Mail group of newspapers. In 1999 Trinity International Holdings, owners of the ""Liverpool Echo"", merged with Mirror Group to form Trinity Mirror. During 2005 the company introduced a number of measures to manage discretionary spending more carefully, some of which attracted press attention. In 2007 the company sought to sell a number of titles: the ""Reading Chronicle"" was"
"syndicated daytime talk show ""Geraldo"". In 1988, Tribune purchased five weekly papers based in Santa Clara County, California. In the wake of a dispute with some of its labor unions, Tribune sold the ""Daily News"" to British businessman Robert Maxwell in 1991. With the changes that came about in the media industry with the greater public access to the internet in the 1990s, Tribune Publishing, Tribune's publishing unit, began to sell off some of its newspaper properties. Tribune Broadcasting steadily acquired additional stations during the decade, while Tribune itself launched two new divisions, Tribune Ventures and Tribune Education. In 1993,"
"to prove that their boss ""is a crook and a liar"". Haines quickly came under Maxwell's influence and later wrote his authorised biography. In June 1985, Maxwell announced a takeover of Sir Clive Sinclair's ailing home computer company, Sinclair Research, through Hollis Brothers, a Pergamon Press subsidiary. The deal was aborted in August 1985. In 1987, Maxwell purchased part of IPC Media to create Fleetway Publications. That same year, he launched the ""London Daily News"" in February after a delay caused by production problems, but the paper closed in July after sustaining significant losses contemporary estimates put at £25 million."
"Commonweal (newspaper) Commonweal was a British socialist newspaper founded in 1885 by the newborn Socialist League. Its aims were to spread socialist views and to win over new recruits. William Morris, founder of the League, was its chief writer, money finder and ""responsible head"". John Turner, Ernest Belfort Bax and Eleanor Marx also regularly contributed articles. Its publishing office was at Great Queen Street, London. In 1890, Morris resigned as editor and was replaced by the anarchist David Nicholl. (Morris went on to publish the ""Hammersmith Socialist Record"", the paper of the Hammersmith Socialist Society.) Nicholl published an article on"
"itself a subsidiary of the Melbourne-based Herald and Weekly Times organisation. In the late 1980s, WAN was acquired by the ill-fated Bond Corporation's subsidiary the Bell Group. In 1986, Holmes à Court sold the ""Daily News"" to a small company headed by businessman Simon Hadfield. The newspaper moved to a renovated pie factory on the outskirts of the CBD. Its last issue was on 11 September 1990. Former staff hold 5-yearly reunions. On 2 May 1990, British publishing magnate Robert Maxwell's UK-based Mirror Group bought 14.9 per cent of Bell from the group's managing director, David Aspinall. However, the deal"
"He also became active in the local militia, and was known as ""Colonel Maxwell"" by the time of his death. William Maxwell (engraver) William Maxwell (c. 1766 – September 10, 1809) was the first engraver to publish a newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio. The paper was called the ""Centinel of the Northwest Territory"", and the first issue was published on Saturday, November 9, 1793. The motto of the paper was ""Open to all parties–but influenced by none"". He used a portable wood printing press, which he took with him to Lexington, Kentucky and set up a business. In 1793 he left"
"London Daily News The London Daily News was a short-lived London newspaper owned by Robert Maxwell. It was published from 24 February to 23 July 1987. The London Daily News was intended to be a ""24-hour"" paper challenging the local dominance of the ""Evening Standard"". ""For the city that never sleeps, the paper that never stops"", ran the promotional slogan. The ""Standard""’s owners, Associated Newspapers, responded by reviving the ""Evening News"" at a lower price to squeeze the ""London Daily News"" out of the market. A price war ensued finishing with the ""London Daily News"" selling at 10p and the"
"provide serious analysis in the rough and tumble of the tabloids"". It failed to attract significant numbers of new readers, and the pull-out section was abandoned, its final issue appearing on 27 August 1974. In 1978, ""The Sun"" overtook the ""Mirror"" in circulation, and in 1984 the ""Mirror"" was sold to Robert Maxwell. After Maxwell's death in 1991, David Montgomery became Mirror Group's CEO, and a period of cost-cutting and production changes ensued. The ""Mirror"" went through a protracted period of crisis before merging with the regional newspaper group Trinity to form Trinity Mirror in 1999. Printing of the ""Daily"""
"United States and re-established his career as a right-wing economic journalist becoming financial editor of the ""New York Post"", with his columns syndicated in the Murdoch press. In 1983 he published a book on the American monetary system. He died on 23 July 1990, aged 61. Maxwell Newton Maxwell Newton (29 April 1929 – 23 July 1990) was an Australian media publisher. He was a founding editor of ""The Australian"". He was the owner of ""Daily Commercial News"" from 1969 to 1981, publisher of the ""Melbourne Observer"" from 1971 to 1977, and, during a similar time frame, the ""Canberra Post""."
"Elisabeth Maxwell Dr Elisabeth ""Betty"" Maxwell (11 March 1921 – 7 August 2013) was a French born researcher into the Holocaust who established the journal ""Holocaust and Genocide Studies"" in 1987. She was married to the publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell. She was born Elisabeth Meynard in Dauphiné, France, to descendants of the Huguenot aristocracy, and studied law at the Sorbonne. In September 1944 after the Liberation of Paris, she met Czechoslovakian-born British Army Captain Robert Maxwell, while working as an interpreter for the 'Welcome Committee', which introduced French people to allied officers; they married on 15 March 1945. She then"
"was owned by Robert Maxwell. During his last years he wrote a weekly column (newspaper) called ""Shishi"" (sixth, or Friday, in Hebrew), in the Maariv weekend supplement ""Mussaf HaShabbat"". Previous personal columns of his were ""Eye Contact"" – a weekly art page in Yedioth Ahronoth, and a column in the weekly newspaper ""Koteret Rashit"". Baruch also created the television interview series ""Adam Baruch in Search of an Answer"" (""אדם ברוך מחפש תשובה""), broadcast on the Israel Broadcasting Authority's Channel one, and the short movie ""Eye Witness"" (""עד ראייה""), broadcast on the Israeli Channel two. Adam Baruch Adam Baruch (9 April"
"Maxwell Newton Maxwell Newton (29 April 1929 – 23 July 1990) was an Australian media publisher. He was a founding editor of ""The Australian"". He was the owner of ""Daily Commercial News"" from 1969 to 1981, publisher of the ""Melbourne Observer"" from 1971 to 1977, and, during a similar time frame, the ""Canberra Post"". Maxwell Newton was born to George William Newton, lead-burner, and his wife Nora Christian, legal secretary, on 28 April 1928 at Nurse Doyle's Private Hospital, in Cottesloe, Western Australia. The family lived with Nora's parents at 17 York Terrace, Mosman Park. At the age of four"
"and Conservative MP Rupert Allason (who writes spy novels under the pseudonym Nigel West) agreed to raise the issue in the House of Commons, which enabled newspapers to claim privilege and report the allegations. Nick Davies was subsequently fired from the ""Daily Mirror"" for gross misconduct. Robert Maxwell issued a writ for libel against Faber and Faber and Seymour Hersh, allegedly telling Davies that the ""Mirror"" editor had threatened to resign if Davies was not fired, but that he would get his job back when the dust settled. Two weeks later, on November 5, 1991, Maxwell fell from his yacht,"
"John Alan Maxwell John Alan Maxwell (March 7, 1904 – April 13, 1984) was an American artist known primarily for his book and magazine illustrations, as well as historical paintings. He also was an illustrator for many commercial publications, including ""Collier's Weekly"", ""The Saturday Evening Post"", ""The Golden Book Magazine"", ""The American Magazine"", and ""Woman's Home Companion"". Maxwell was born in Roanoke, Virginia and raised in Johnson City, Tennessee, at 428 1/2 West Locust Street, the son of Arthur Clifford Maxwell and Bessie Mae (Ball) Maxwell. He was the oldest of five children, including Elizabeth Victoria Maxwell (Smedberg), Clifford Arthur"
"The London Paper The London Paper (stylised as thelondonpaper) was a free daily newspaper, published by NI Free Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International (who also own the companies that publish ""The Sun"" and ""The Times""). It was available from Monday to Friday each week in Central London from 4 September 2006 until 18 September 2009 (its final print-run before closure). The paper was the first London newspaper to be published in direct competition with the ""Evening Standard"" since 1987 and Robert Maxwell's short-lived ""London Daily News"". It was also the first newspaper to be launched by News International"
"down to a more realistic weekly with a circulation of 225,000. In the event, the circulation peaked at 180,000, over half of which was British. Following Maxwell's death, the Barclay brothers bought the newspaper in 1992, investing an estimated $110 million and in 1996 transforming it into a high-end tabloid format oriented at the business community edited by Andrew Neil. In 1996, ""The European"" had a staff of 70 in London, 3 in Brussels, 1 in Paris, 1 in Berlin, 1 in Moscow, as well as a network of 100 freelance writers throughout Europe. Among the newspaper's innovations was a"
"Robert Maxwell took ""Flook"" to the ""Daily Mirror"", from where it transferred briefly to the ""Sunday Mirror"" before being dropped completely. Fawkes also produced political cartoons for ""The Spectator"" with George Melly as his author. The two also contributed occasionally to ""Private Eye"" and, beginning in 1962, the ""New Statesman"". Despite producing larger political cartoons for the ""Daily Mail"", his future role as Illingworth's successor as lead cartoonist was threatened by the paper's preference for the work of Gerald Scarfe. Fawkes therefore began submitting work to other publications, and he began contributing political cartoons to ""The Observer"". At ""The Observer"""
"launched a dawn raid on the Company acquiring a stake of 29%; the following year he secured full control of it. He changed the name of the Company to ""British Printing & Communications Corporation"" in March 1982 and to ""Maxwell Communication Corporation"" in October 1987. The Company acquired Macmillan Publishers, a large US publisher, in 1988. It went on to buy Science Research Associates and the Official Airline Guide later that year. The Company went into administration in 1991 following the death of Robert Maxwell. Its properties were sold to various media companies. McGraw Hill acquired that part of Science"
"in 1985, joining ""Today"", serving as managing editor and, from 1987, editor of ""Sunday Today"". He returned to ""Mirror"" group to become deputy editor of the ""Sunday Mirror"" in 1988, then deputy editor and subsequently acting editor of the ""Daily Mirror"" in 1990, before becoming editor of ""The People"" the following year. This last move was a surprise to Hagerty, who had believed that, already in his fifties, he would not be appointed to the editorship of a major national newspaper. In 1992, following the death of proprietor Robert Maxwell, Hagerty was among many journalists in the company sacked from"
"East River as he negotiated with the unions over his purchase of the ""New York Daily News"". On 5 November 1991, at the age of 68, Maxwell was on board ""Lady Ghislaine"", which was cruising off the Canary Islands. Maxwell's body was subsequently found floating in the Atlantic Ocean. He was buried in Jerusalem. The official verdict was accidental drowning, though some commentators have surmised that he may have committed suicide. Lady Mona K Lady Mona K (formerly ""Lady Ghislaine"") is a luxury motor yacht built by Amels in 1986. Built for Emad Khashoggi, after the death of Robert Maxwell,"
"Maxwell Communication Corporation Maxwell Communication Corporation plc was a leading British media business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The Company was established in 1964 when ""Hazell Sun"" merged with Purnell & Sons to form the ""British Printing Corporation"". In 1967 the ""British Printing Corporation"" merged its magazines into Haymarket Group. During the 1970s the ""British Printing Corporation"" was involved in many disputes with trade unions. In 1978 such a dispute led to ""The Times"" and ""Sunday Times"" not being published for 10 months. In July 1981 Robert Maxwell"